Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

What you are will show in what you do.

Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!

And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy, For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Love is never having to say you're sorry.